Power device

• US 3,250,140 A
• Filed: 07/01/1964
• Issued: 05/10/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edward J. Russell
• Original Assignee: Edward J. Russell
• Inventors: Russell, Edward J.
• Application Number:
  US04/379,533
• Time in Patent Office: 678 Days
• US Class Current: 74/126
• CPC Class Codes: F03G 3/00 Other motors, e.g. gravity or inertia motors
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/1526 Oscillation or reciprocation to intermittent unidirectional motion
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/1537 Oscillating

Claims

1. A POWER DEVICE COMPRISING A PENDULUM HAVING AN ENLARGED WEIGHT ON THE BOTTOM END THEREOF, AN ARCUATE SEGMENT GEAR ON THE TOP THEREOF, A PINION GEAR MESHING WITH THE SEGMENT GEAR, A SHAFT SUPPORTING SAID PINION GEAR, A ONE-WAY RATCHET MECHANISM CONNECTED TO SAID SHAFT, SAID MECHANISM INCLUDING A HOLLOW OUTPUT SHAFT JOURNALLED ON SAID FIRST MENTIONED SHAFT, A SPIRAL SPRING HAVING AN INNER CONVOLUTION ATTACHED TO SAID HOLLOW SHAFT, A LARGE EXTERNAL RING GEAR ENCLOSING SAID SPRING WITH THE OUTER CONVOLUTION OF THE SPRING ATTACHED TO THE RING GEAR, AND GEAR MEANS DRIVEN FROM SAID RING GEAR AND CONNECTED FOR ENGAGING SAID FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND MEANS FOR ENGAGING SAID PENDULUM WEIGHT AT THE END OF EACH CYCLE OF MOVEMENT FOR IMPARTING A FORCE THERETO.